Leonard Bernstein - The Political Life of an American Musician

Zusatztext "Seldes is insightful." Informationen zum Autor Barry Seldes is Professor of Political Science at Rider University and the author of a wide range of essays on politics and culture. Klappentext "Finally! a biography of Bernstein that does not merely chronicle his career but truly explains it. Barry Seldes argues most convincingly that Bernstein's life in music is bound up with his political perspective! and his creative commitments reflected his social ones. What emerges from this meticulously researched! engagingly written! and utterly fascinating account is a richer! truer portrait of an important American composer! conductor! and citizen."-Elizabeth Bergman! author of Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War Zusammenfassung From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. This biography examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950 and voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Young American: Bernstein at Harvard 2. The Forties: Ascent and Blacklist 3. American Biedermeier 4. The Long Sixties 5. Norton Lectures 6. Bernstein at Sea 7. Understanding Bernstein Epilogue: A Man in Dark Times Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Seldes, Barry Seldes
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2009
• EAN: 9780520257641
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25764-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Biography: arts & entertainment, Politics & government, Politics and government, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment